Stephen Webber added the comment: This is intentional handling of non-existant variables, and is not resticted to '==' operations. Returning the value of a Counter parameter that has not yet been set returns 0 by default.
See the documentation here: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html "Counter objects have a dictionary interface except that they return a zero count for missing items instead of raising a KeyError:" Since this is intended behavior, I recommend this bug become closed. ---------- nosy: +ForeverBacchus _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14182> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
